Jessica Valenti is excited. Very excited. In a recent article, she celebrates Planned Parenthood's new program offering women abortion pills to keep at home "just in case" they might need them someday. Reading it, I…
Every Friday I gather a handful of stories that made me stop scrolling, sip my coffee, and stare at the screen for a moment. This week's collection features a governor who isn't running for president…
Americans watched Joe Biden stumble through that disastrous debate against Donald Trump and immediately knew something was wrong. Really wrong. The White House told everybody to calm down. Media allies blamed a cold, jet lag,…
Joe Biden is suing the Justice Department to stop the release of recordings connected to the classified documents investigation. The lawsuit itself may end up creating more suspicion than the tapes ever would have on…
Another Friday. Another batch of headlines that feel like America accidentally left the television on while the country wandered into the kitchen looking for aspirin. This week gave us UFO footage over Michigan, Stephen Colbert’s…
I do not know exactly when Americans became comfortable filming themselves crying in parked cars, but apparently we all agreed to it somewhere along the way. Every day the internet serves up another emotional breakdown…
The more Hakeem Jeffries steps in front of a microphone, the more his bitterness and anger toward conservatives and much of America spills out. This week Jeffries declared MAGA voters need to be “broken.” That…
Ronald Reagan once famously warned that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Zohran Mamdani is openly rejecting that warning altogether, brushing it…
Over the past few years, Americans have slowly gotten used to hearing phrases like “UAP,” “nonhuman biologics,” and “unexplained aerial phenomena” tossed around by Congress and the Pentagon like this is somehow normal now. We’ve…
This latest Field Notes from Victory Girls Blog feels right at home here at An Americanist, too. Kamala Harris lost the election and somehow came away thinking America’s system is what needs fixing instead of…
